dc, and those cities were classified as the murder capital of the country. gun violence was something that affected a lot of young people throughout my childhood. i got most impacted in february 2000 when my cousin, who was then 27 years old, was robbed and murdered in philadelphia, pennsylvania. that had a huge impact on everything i did because in a way my life plan was to follow in his footsteps. and therefore i had no kind of road ahead of me. so my mother was a boston police officer for over 18 years. i already had a concept of gun safety, i knew that there were guns in our house. we had a safe, i knew to leave it alone, but my mother